Hosts:- How often does life offer you real puzzles and how do you handle them?

Dmitry: - I face puzzles pretty often. I don’t like them, ‘cause sometimes I can’t work them out, especially those that they sell in shops…

H - Do you prefer books with pictures?

D - No, I prefer something more romantic.

H - You are a record breaker, aren’t you ? You are registered in some mysterious Book of Records of Belarus?

D - I’ve never seen that book, but I am in it for a short story I wrote, where all the words started with a “P”.

H - Oh, don’t quote it now!..

D - No, no, that was not a dirty story…

H - We know you loved to read when a kid, and of course you do remember the whole of “Eugene Onegin” by heart.

D - You bet!

H - We will not be asking you to recite it now, we just want to test your humanity. Do you feel sorry for Lensky who was killed somewhere in the middle of it?

D- I believe he would have been far better of if had been killed at the beginning.

H - Would have suffered less, wouldn’t he, poor guy?.. However, we are discussing girls’ intellect and beauty. Do you think Tatiana made a right choice between Onegin and Lensky? In a nutshell, who are you for?

D - I am all for Onegin!

H - But he was a scum, first he rejected the girl.

D - Everything suits a scum.

H - Do you also feel sorry for scums?

D - Yes, scums also cry with tears.

H - Is your family name of any help in life? Do you scarify your opponents?

D - Not all the magicians are evil. I am a beneficent magician! It’s just my luck that I was born in the 20th century, and not in the 15th. There are very few people with the family name Koldun, our family is the only one in Belarus, the others must have been killed by Holy Inquisition.

H - You don’t look like someone killed by the Inquisition! You are quite buoyant! What do you think is more important, intellect or beauty?

D - When you meet a girl you first pay attention at her looks, and only then at everything else. You judge a girl by the way she is dressed, then you undress her…

H - And there is the intellect right there…

D - Then you look for intellect!

H - Do you often get disappointed in your career of an “expert on female intellect and beauty”?

D - Pretty often. You meet many girls who want to get acquainted with you, but later on when you get closer, well… something gets wrong…

H - Girls, let me warn you that Dmitry starts with undressing you and looking for intellect! Please be careful with him! … We know you are an experienced driver. And all drivers can be split into two psycho types, “elephants” and “monkeys”, and what are you?

D - I am a bull of a driver, as in all the car accidents I have had, I was trying to charge!

H - Girls, do you hear that? Dmitry is a bull by psycho type. He first undress girls and then starts bulling them… Rumours are spread that you have become a businessman, you have your own recoding studio, is that correct?

D - It’s not that I have become a businessman, just Alexander Astashonok and I opened a sound studio. Quite recently we completed recording my album. Frome time to time some people come round to make their recordings, bring us some cents. That’s not too bad at all during the crisis!

H - Also this is a great excuse! Usually husbands say to their wives “Iam tied up in a meeting”, and you…

D - I am tied up in the studio!

H - I need to take note of that! Now a traditional and banal question thyat is always asked to a singer: in your private life, say, when you are at the dinner table, does it ever happen that you cannot help howling?

D - It’s not because I can’t help it, I just forget that I am at a table and I suddenly feel like singing…